Subj : Tiers
To   : Andrea Santos
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sun Jul 15 2001 08:59 pm

On (15 Jul 01) Andrea Santos wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello Andrea,


-> 3. No power allowed. No Titles allowed.

 AS> Fat chance. ;-)

<chuckle>

-> 4. If other distribution systems wish to continue operation, fine. Go
-> for it.

 AS> Defeating the purpose of this discussion.  No need for multiple
 AS> distribution systems within Zone 1.

Ok... I'll go with things up to here.

Fidonet is, to the best of my understanding, a peer to peer network. As
such, there is really no one distribution system since all can connect
to each other on an equal basis. In the same vein, each Node in
Fidonet's peer to peer is a distribution system.

What I am saying is... All that is being done here is to play a game
of "Title, Title... Who's got the title?!?". Remove the title and
there will still be distribution systems. Just no title to argue over.

-> 5. If some want to charge for service, no problem. If some want to pay
-> for service, no problem. Just don't bitch about the service to anyone
-> except the person or "distribution system" you pay to.

 AS> Agreed.

-> 6. This is a hobby. There are no guarantees given, implied or
-> expressed.

 AS> Minus any service contracts folks have with providers who charge a
 AS> fee. If you're getting your mail free, not much you can complain
 AS> about, other than to move to another free provider.

If you have that choice. For those that feed from their Net, that
might not be the case. I feed from my Net. I'm POTS connected to the
Net. I could go outside for a feed, but that would mean finding a feed
and trying to get connected and a lot of other stuff. In bygone days,
there was less choice. Most were feed from their Net via some "agreed
to" system. Some are probably still in that boat from choice. They
would drop Fidonet if they had to go outside their Net for a feed as
they may not have the ability, knowledge or desire to feed from some
other source. Maybe that is not our problem, but it is  "our problem".

Maybe what is needed here is a way to distribute all the echos in
Fidonet and show which are alive, dead, multi-language, and other
factors. Maybe that is really all that is needed. Maybe the current
system(s) could do that?

Fat chance. That would take cooperation and guts. :-))


Regards,

 Frank

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